I would like this, finding food in a new world is one of the hardest things in the game. Now it's a bit easier if you find a village, harvest wheat from their farms and sell to them for 2 emeralds. Buy a pack of 16 cookies or 4 breads (I prefer cookies, they last more) with that emeralds and eat them.

It's actually pretty easy. Just spend your first day making stone tools, use stone axe to chop trees for apples, try to find mushrooms for making soup, and also breaking grass for seeds. Once you run out of mushrooms in your immediate area, your farm should be quite large and giving you plenty of food.

On a sidenote, with 21 wheat you can make 7 bread, so don't trade it for 4 bread, ever.

I'm a bit OCD-ish (if that's a real thing, never seen it mentioned outside this subreddit so I think that maybe it is a joke that I didn't get) about building a house , so my first step is to get lots and lots of wood until I get enough to start building a house. Only after the house starts taking shape, I get a workbench and start crafting tools.

run around chopping wood and killing cows, pig and chickens.
double back occasionally to get apples and saplings.

just before it gets dark dig into the side of a mountain or just dig down until you are out of site.

place your workbench and forge. make at least 1 charcoal with 2 saplings. make 8 charcoal with 1 charcoal. make another forge with the cobble from your new home. place forge. cook food with charcoal. make a door. place door. make torches. places torches. eat food.

They're easy to break, but pretty slow. I don't have exact timings but (stone tools) wood seems to go from 3 seconds to like half a second. Dirt goes from about a second to a quarter of a second. It's at least twice as fast, I'm pretty obsessive about using tools because if I'm not using one I feel like I'm just wasting loads of time on really mundane stuff.

Depends how you play though. I always like to clear out a forest as quick as I can and move mountains of dirt to make level building areas. A half hour job using stone tools would take an hour or two without them. It's not like sticks and stones are in short supply anyway...